Power Law company profile

BGI

Biotech & Life Sciences · Shenzhen, China · Founded 1999 · IPO 2017 Unicorn

DNA sequencing service provider part of BGI Group

Valuation

$1.94B

Market cap · Apr/2026

Revenue

$509M

Latest reported FY

EBITDA

$49M

Latest reported FY

Featured in Unicorn$1B+ valuation tier · Power Law dataset 2026 $10B+ revenueThoroughbred · Power Law outcome

Investors

4 investors on BGI's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Series B+ 4 investors entered at this stage

NLVC

State Development & Investment Corporation (SDIC)

Taikang Life Insurance

MSA Capital

BGI mafia

Startups founded by BGI alumni

Former BGI employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.

CrosswireEst. 2021

Nicholas WongUnited States

DoubleRainbow BiosciencesEst. 2017

Jing-Ke WengUnited States

Genomic PredictionEst. 2017

Laurent C A Melchior TellierUnited States

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Global footprint

Where BGI has talent and traffic

AI talent share

0.2% of workforce is AI talent
(5 of 3,039 staff)

Core AI50.16%

Other AI00%

Non-AI workforce3,03499.84%

Workforce by country

41 countries with
team presence

🇨🇳 China74.5%

🇭🇰 Hong Kong4.8%

🇺🇸 United States3.6%

🇬🇧 United Kingdom1.7%

🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia1.5%

Top 5 of 41 shown

Web traffic by country

90K monthly visits
across markets

🇨🇳 China36.8%

🇺🇸 United States7%

🇭🇰 Hong Kong4.7%

🇩🇪 Germany4.4%

🇦🇺 Australia4.2%

Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$627M patent portfolio · 2,771 active families

Estimated portfolio value

$627M

32.3% of market cap · 4.4× smaller than top peer Illumina ($2.7B)

2,771 active patent families

Where BGI innovates BioinformaticsMolecular biologyComputational biologyNucleic acidLibrary

Where BGI concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across BGI and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about BGI

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about BGI on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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